Fifth data center opened in four months, the new Montreal facility joins a Toronto one opened last summer as part of a $1.2 billion cloud investment

Bare metal offering leverages IBM's open server chip initiative to expand its cloud services business

OpenStack powered by IBM cloud on SoftLayer infrastructure brings OpenStack closer to enterprises. IBM also anounced a new data center in Mumbai, India as part of $1.2bn global data center expansion.

The latest data center in IBM SoftLayer's global cloud push is in Melbourne, Australia.

First SoftLayer data center in Canada, the facility to improve service for the company's Canadian customers as well as customers outside of the country serving the Toronto market.

Big Blue celebrates anniversary of the deal that transformed its cloud services strategy with launch of more services on top of the platform